Saturday, March 29, 2008

X-NetStat Professional shows your current Internet and networkconnections in realtime. These connections are established each timeyou visit a web page, send an instant message, check your email, oranytime you do network activity that requires you to connect toanother computer. They also appear when outside computers attempt toconnect to your machine, authorized or not.

Information shown includes local and remote addresses, local andremote ports, the status, the age of the connection, how muchbandwidth/traffic the connection is using, and the program EXE behindit. It's kind of like Internet/network radar, and you can even killunwanted connections.

The Professional edition of X-NetStat offers a ton of additionalfeatures geared towards Network Administrators, like a Rules system toset up actions based on network conditions, a comprehensive NetworkStatistics window displaying information on network interfaces andprotocols, a server that lets you access XNS information remotely, acollection of Lookup Tools (TraceRoute, WHOIS, Finger, DNS, WebSearch, Server Version, NetBIOS Lookup, Online Tools, etc), a PortDatabase, Logging capabilities, transmission LED lights, a dockableViewBar, and many more features.